How to Use marsh in a Sentence

marsh

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  • To the north, she is linked to a marsh, and to the west a canal ties her to Lake Hart.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2022
  • We're seated on the edge of a small marsh near the mouth of the Slough Creek drainage.
    — Jacob Job, Scientific American, 4 June 2021
  • The lake is edged by tules and has a small island and a marsh.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 12 Nov. 2020
  • The marsh has been through my mom’s side of the family.
    — Kristine M. Kierzek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Go to the shooting range, or invite them to watch the sun rise in the marsh.
    — Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 15 Dec. 2020
  • The seafood and fish were caught from the fecundity of the marsh.
    — Padma Lakshmi, Time, 24 June 2020
  • Oil seeps into the marsh mud and affects the worms and snails.
    — Joan Meiners, ProPublica, 28 Dec. 2019
  • The birds can be found in fields, farms, brush and marsh edges and stay in an area year-round.
    — Micah Walker, Detroit Free Press, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The space will evoke the magical marsh where Tiana and Naveen take refuge in the film.
    — Tim Walters, USA TODAY, 29 July 2021
  • Gilbert and his wife have been camping in their RV next to the marsh since April.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2021
  • This is the third year in a row that a family of swans has been raised up in the marsh.
    — Bob Hallinen, Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2022
  • Wood ducks will come to a roost site, often a marsh, in the evening by the hundreds.
    — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Shannan's purse, shoes, cell phone -- even her jeans were found in the marsh.
    — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 12 Dec. 2020
  • Her body was found a week later, in a marsh a few miles away.
    — James Lasdun, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
  • The marsh is expected to take at least four years to build.
    — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Some know the marsh along Turnagain Arm used to scream with the calls of pipers, snipe, ducks and geese.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Ravenna, a jewel in the midst of a marsh, was a place of paradox.
    — Anthony Kaldellis, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Her dear friend's body wasn't found for a week, in a marsh near the Broad River about 5 miles away.
    — Elijah Nouvelage For Cnn, CNN, 26 Sep. 2021
  • The marsh there feels endless, the live oaks along the shoreline ancient.
    — Michael Adno, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
  • The study at the Chesapeake marsh did in fact represent all plants.
    — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The sketch showed a drake and hen mallard dropping into a marsh.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Aug. 2021
  • To his right, colors bloomed in the marshes, the tents of homeless people.
    — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Some of the Bronx is rocky and wooded like upstate, and some is oceanfront marsh and beach.
    — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
  • The highlight for the group was a cooper's hawk perched on a branch and superbly camouflaged in the browns and tans of the marsh.
    — Lindsey Botts, The Arizona Republic, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Instead, the culprit must be microbes, either the sort that live in a marsh or the sort that live in a cow’s gut.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Rough beach grass hisses against the cinder blocks of the building, and its one big window looks across the road to the marsh that leads to the sea.
    — Katherine Dunn, The New Yorker, 4 May 2020
  • Walk or bike this one-mile scenic trail that extends over the marsh to a lookout tower.
    — Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2021
  • The tunnel is along a bike path next to a humid marsh and bordered by trees blocking the ocean breeze.
    — Lisa Krantz, San Antonio Express-News, 8 July 2021
  • The dry winter months (June to September) are the best times to visit, even with the dust in the air; summer rains fill the marsh and can make access and wildlife viewing tricky.
    — Heather Richardson, Travel + Leisure, 10 Aug. 2024
  • Now, hooked conducting rods on the ends of the mill’s four sail arms are in place, ready to seize an angry lightning bolt and transmit it harmlessly down to rods buried in the nearby marsh.
    — Chris Baraniuk, WIRED, 11 Sep. 2024

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